Chris Kraft, acting chief technology officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has been appointed as acting chief information officer at the U.S. Secret Service. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Homeland Security
Lucian Niemeyer, acting assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, said an Energy Savings Performance Contract signed by the Department of Energy with the Navy seeks to help the service improve
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General Services Administration program managers said they are working to address public concerns over the transition from FedBizOpps to the System for Award Management and plan to add features to the platform in the near
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Anne Neuberger, director of the cybersecurity directorate at the National Security Agency, said NSA plans to publish updated cloud security guidance for companies by the end of 2019, the Wall Street Journal
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The FBI said FaceApp and other mobile applications originating from Russia may pose a counterintelligence threat, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote in an article published Monday on Defense News that NNSA requested over $2B in fiscal 2020 funds to support its nuclear nonproliferation,
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A recent Department of Defense study says small and large contractors are struggling to comply with DoD’s new cybersecurity standards, Defense One reported Monday. “For the most part, the big companies do very
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The U.S. government considers making changes to two rules to expand the country’s authority to ban more foreign shipments to China-based telecommunications equipment firm Huawei, Reuters reported Sunday.
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The Defense Digital Service has worked with the U.S. Army on a pilot program to help the service branch streamline its cyber training's Joint Cyber Analytics Course and tactical training phase, Fifth Domain
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The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a draft binding operational directive that would require federal agencies to have a vulnerability disclosure policy.
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The Department of Education has asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland to submit detailed records of contracts and gifts from foreign governments and technology firms, Nextgov reported
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